Category Archives: Geek Stuff

How to Copy-Paste YouTube Comments With Formatting in Firefox

Posted on 2018-09-10 by Stephan Sokolow

TL;DR: Copy more. Extending your selection outside the comment body will prevent the bug from triggering. For the last little while, I’d been suffering from an annoying bug where, if…TL;DR: Copy more. Extending your selection outside the comment body will … Continue reading →

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Working around serde_json bug #464 (serializing pre-epoch mtimes)

Posted on 2018-07-23 by Stephan Sokolow

You may not know this, but Rust’s serde serialization/deserialization library can panic if you happen to feed it a file modification time prior to the UNIX epoch. I discovered this…You may not know this, but Rust’s serde serialization/deserialization library can … Continue reading →

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Why you should ALWAYS practice defensive programming

Posted on 2018-07-17 by Stephan Sokolow

Take a look at this Rust snippet for a moment and tell me whether you can find the reason it’s not safe to run. After all, Rust is a language…Take a look at this Rust snippet for a moment and … Continue reading →

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How to Hide Firefox’s New “Saved to Library” Confirmation Popup

Posted on 2018-07-07 by Stephan Sokolow

…and another quick userChrome.css hack, since I wasn’t able to use the Browser Toolbox to figure it out and had to be told on Bugzilla… Removing the “Saved to Library!”……and another quick userChrome.css hack, since I wasn’t able to use … Continue reading →

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How to Remove The Thumbnail in Firefox’s Bookmark Popup

Posted on 2018-07-07 by Stephan Sokolow

I run Firefox Developer Edition and, a couple of days ago, they announced a rather head-scratching feature which I received today: In the popup from the bookmarking star, they’ve added…I run Firefox Developer Edition and, a couple of days ago, … Continue reading →

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A Blueprint for Creating FLOSS-Safe Replacements for BWCC.DLL Stock Icons

Posted on 2018-06-28 by Stephan Sokolow

TL;DR: Here’s a detailed description that should be sufficient to design knock-offs of the most iconic of Borland OWL’s stock icons for use Windows 3.1 hobby projects intended to be…TL;DR: Here’s a detailed description that should be sufficient to design … Continue reading →

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An Improved QPlainTextEdit for PyQt5

Posted on 2018-03-29 by Stephan Sokolow

TL;DR: Code here One of the projects I’ve been working on recently is a proper replacement for the hacky way I handle desktop notes and “scratch paper”. (Abusing Leafpad windows…TL;DR: Code here One of the projects I’ve been working on … Continue reading →

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